Housing Developments: How your zip code affects your life expectancy

King County neighborhoods impacting life expectancy up to 18 years

“It’s not the fact that you’re living at a certain latitude or longitude, it’s all the other things associated with that neighborhood, like socioeconomic conditions, quality of housing, maybe education levels.”Huge disparities in life expectancies across Seattle neighborhoods are visualized in this new Seattle Times piece. For more on how housing conditions drive health outcomes in your city, check out HDC’s Housing & Health infographic series.

Other Developments…

HDC Members: Applications for Leadership Development Survey Course are open now through September 18th. The seven-month course gives participants a broad overview of leadership principles and exposes participants to the varied roles of leaders in mission and value-driven organizations.

Seattle Mayoral Candidate Forum: See the two candidates for Seattle mayor discuss growth, housing, and homelessess at a September 12th forum hosted by Solid Ground and the Seattle U Project on Family Homelessness and sponsored by HDC, SKCCH, and WLIHA Action Fund.

Early bird registration is now open for our first ever Advocacy Intensive! This two-day training will build your capacity for systems change work by helping you understand mobilization and organizing, housing policy and the political process, and how to engage with electeds. Save $30 on registration now through September 18th.

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